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| - Toronto's first seafood boil chain with a Vietnamese twist.
It gets messy but it's fun and delicious. Definitely worth a try.
The downtown location is the newer, second location of this trendy new restaurant. I've been to both, and they're both identical in terms of menu, service and food quality. I was pleasantly surprised by how tasty everything is. Captain's boil sauce is really good, and is really the only choice. I don't like things too spicy, so I opted for the mild spice level, which already has a slight kick to it, and was the perfect amount of spice for me. The lime and salt combination that they give you to compliment the seafood really shows the Vietnamese influence.
Stick to shrimp and mussels at this place! The snowcrab and lobster is expensive and not worth it. The shell for lobster and snowcrab legs are too thick for the flavour to truly soak into the meat anyways. Personally, I feel like that it's a money grab. The shrimp, mussels and even clams are amazing. (I'm a little hesitant to recommend clams because there's a lot of of empty shells in them but they're very tasty)
Two pounds of shrimp is a surprisingly large amount of shrimp. I recommend 2 pounds of shrimp/mussels per person with a side of cajun fries. Oh and make sure to add corn to your meal! Corn soaked in captain's boil sauce is amazing.
The gloves they give you are helpful, but aren't 100% protective. They easily ripped from the sharp edges of the shrimp shells. Again, this meal is MESSY, so if you're going out somewhere after, be warned. Service is a little slow, and the servers can get confused with all of the different orders, but that's only to be expected as I came in a party of 16 people and everyone got different orders in various mixtures of pounds, sides and spice levels.
They're very picky on reservations. If you said table of 8 for 7:00pm, you have to show up with at least 7 people for them to seat you. I remember an incident at the North York location where they wouldn't seat a party of 6 because their resos said party of 8. Be punctual!
Strongly recommended to come here to try at least once. It's a great experience.
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